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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the big black cobra that is responsible for the tailorbirds distress?
(a) Nagaina.
(b) Chuchundra.
(c) Nag.
(d) Tag.

2. Who kills Nagaina?
(a) Teddy's father.
(b) Rikki.
(c) Shere Khan.
(d) Darzee.

3. Where does Nagaina hide her eggs?
(a) In the tree.
(b) The melon patch.
(c) In the grass.
(d) The flower garden.

4. How long does the elephant performance last?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Two minutes.
(c) Two days.
(d) The entire night.

5. What does the White Seal do in the folktale that the old seals speak of?
(a) Kill the hunters.
(b) Be the strongest hunter.
(c) Save the seals.
(d) Have many babies.

6. How many eggs does Rikki find in the melon patch?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Fifteen.

7. Who is Big Toomai?
(a) Kala Nag's driver.
(b) Kala Nag's elephant.
(c) Another snake.
(d) Another elephant.

8. Little Toomai goes to the elephant dance, even though he is supposed to be watching who?
(a) Kala Nag.
(b) Petersen.
(c) Mowgli.
(d) Pudmini.

9. When the seal hunters first see Kotick, what do they think?
(a) He isn't scary.
(b) That he is a ghost.
(c) He looks are laughable.
(d) That his coat is perfect for their collection.

10. Who is Sea Catch?
(a) An old seal.
(b) An old fisherman.
(c) A fish.
(d) A hawk.

11. Who does Kala Nag especially look out for?
(a) Little Toomai.
(b) Big Toomai.
(c) Pudmini.
(d) Petersen.

12. What is the name of Sea Catch's wife?
(a) Novastoshnah.
(b) Matkah.
(c) Kerick.
(d) Kotick.

13. How does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi end up in Segowlee?
(a) A cobra scares him away.
(b) Someone kidnaps him.
(c) He is cast out by his family.
(d) A flood forces him out of his home.

14. When does Sea Catch comes to Novastoshnah?
(a) In the spring.
(b) Every winter.
(c) Every fall.
(d) Every summer.

15. How does Chapter Six end?
(a) The death of Kala Nag.
(b) Petersen seeing the elephant dance.
(c) With the elephants giving the boy a full trumpet salute.
(d) The scolding of the boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal is Kala Nag?

2. Kotick is disturbed by the sight of what at the beginning of Chapter Four?

3. Who suggests Kotick talk to Sea Vitch?

4. Who is Sea Vitch?

5. How old is Kala Nag?

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